“It wasn’t much fun being an Israeli footballer at Tynecastle yesterday. Lashed by the rain, barracked by pro-Palestinian demonstrators – and seven goals down at half-time…against a noisy backdrop of protests about the imprisonment of Palestinian footballers. The Israeli national anthem was jeered, and the players booed…the demonstrators’ chants for Scotland to score 10″

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absolutely brilliant protest.reminded me of similar protest some years back at a men,s U21 game between the two in Livingstone(or was it Hamilton?). on that occasion we were frisked and scanned and all palestinian flags/posters were confiscated by the police.inside we were constantly filmed and photographed by special branch goons. however we managed to get a few flags in thanks to female protesters who had secreted them in their undergarments.best of all, scores of balloons were blown up inside and formed to make Palestinian symbols. throughout,there was non stop chanting,so important as the game was being broadcast live in Israel. well done everyone. couldn,t make it myself due to going to the well attended and important REFUGEES ARE WELCOME/STOP THE EVICTIONS demo in Glasgow.

But the report says racism is commonplace. At a Europa League game in September, fans of Legia Warsaw, arguably the most racist and antisemitic of any in Poland, displayed a jihad banner behind the goal in an anti-Jewish demonstration against their Israeli opponents Hapoel Tel Aviv.

A couple of weeks later the same fans chanted “Hamas, Hamas, Jews off to the gas” to fans from Lodz, a city whose population was a third Jewish before the second world war. Lowles says it is not just the supporters who are prone to nationalism. Jan Tomaszewski, a former Polish goalkeeper, said last August he was ashamed of the current Polish team which was made up of players who were not “true Poles”. Tomaszewski, now an MP for the rightwing Law and Justice party, said: “This hotchpotch lacks only a cannibal from Africa, who once ate a Polish missionary. This is not a Polish team. There are Colombian and German stray dogs.”

And equally the tech you are using in all or part comes from the slave sweatshops of the Chinese fascist dictatorship.

So can we not demonstrate against that regime?

And Israel is much more than ‘this moments convenient scapegoat’ – its been scapegoated (not a word I am altogether happy about implying as its does complete blamelessness) for so long and with such intensity that there is clearly something much deeper going on.

Mattsaid,

No one is against demonstrating against the Israeli government, it’s the boycott that’s the question here. Are you be proposing that the boycott be extended to Chinese goods, artists, writers and musicians?

Jodleysaid,

Oh you are so stupid, Sarah A.B. The `israel deleted` comment is a joke about to someone saying the title was wrong – saying Israel in one place and Palestine in another. ‘Israel’ had been replaced with `Palestine`. There is no language that will ever satisfy you idiotic, witch-hunting, seething idiots. Any joke has to be parsed just in case it contains racism. Which that one didn’t. Unless you’re an idiot. Which you are.